In order to meet the requirements of maintaining the original condition of rock face of underground cavern,avoiding heavy excavation to protect ground environment,and reducing support cost of large-span shallow buried cavern,a new supporting method for shallow-buried cavern based on the mining method is presented.

According to the engineering characteristics of underground pedestrian passageway in Wuhan theatre with shallow burial depth and actions of frequent moving loads the applications of open-cut method,pipe jacking method,shield driving method and shallow tunneling method are analyzed.

This method,which combines“top-down method” and “shallow tunneling method”,possesses the advantages,such as economization, safety and rapid construction,ect,and it can be applied to large underground engineering in the flourishing area of city.

Zhang Zizhong station on metro line 5 in Beijing is a large-span embedded metro station, and is constructed with shallow tunnelling method which needs to control the settlement of free surface strictly.

The pith and marrow of this method is the combination of both the traditional "cover and excavation up-down method" and the "shallow tunnelling method", the latter is used: for constructing beam foundation.

Zhang Zizhong station on metro line 5 in Beijing is a large-span embedded metro station,and is constructed with shallow tunnelling method which needs to control the settlement of free surface strictly.

Application of Shallow Mining Method to Shihuang Tunnel in Chongqing;

Reasons, Regularity and Control Measures of Ground Settlement due to Tunnel Excavation by Shallow Mining Method;

Taking the subway tunnel of Theater-Science Building Section in Shengzhen City as an example ,the article introduces the monitoring measurement technique in the construction of subway tunnel by shallow mining method at moisture-rich soft stratum ,and provides some regular conclusions to the similar project for reference .